I kept hearing ghosts in the safe room." It's empty. I checked it last night." Kinny yawned. "Is that why youwent to work?" That and to earn a paychec...." I hope you stayed out of the back room." I wasn't the one who got her SWID punched last night." What happens if I ignore it?" They'll arrest the other woman. Unless your name is on a documentsomeplace."Kinny thought about his signature at Department of Health. "I think Ishould attend the classes."Joi nodded. "They make it easy." She got ready. Both heads almost fully covered her hands. She examined the tip that was now dripping a gooey colorless liquid. She reached with her tongue to taste, touching the tip of the large organ. The taste was unlike anything she had tasted before. She instantly craved more and turned her head to the second organ before licking the entire head all over. Both monsters were breathing deeply and groaning in pleasure. She noticed the reaction and wanted to continue pleasing the new species. She opened her. This path suited my brother Gaius better than I, for I foundthat all my orations turned to verse, and all my speeches found meterand rhyme. I could not escape Thalia, my muse, for she followed meeverywhere I went.Gaius entered the courts as one of the centumviri. As civil mattersarose among the plebians that required the attention of the law, allone hundred names of the centumviri would be entered into a lottery,Gaius's among them. The men whose five names were drawn would sit injudgment. She also wanted to know why she hadn’t heard anything about any trip, since she’d spent time with some of the Ennahai, and believed she should be privy to that information. Rosa explained that we didn’t even know her name was on the original list, and Annie said that was because her comments on the blog were submitted under a pseudonym.I asked Rosa how she felt about the possibility of her sister going on the journey, and she said she had mixed feelings about it. She said Annie could be flighty.